No I’m not kidding.
Come at me bro
Or on me
Either or
Daggerfall!
Not sure if this is more or less of a problem for people wtih red-green colorblindness.
On the one hand, it’s harder to differentiate at all. On the other hand, it kind of removes that established expectation and keeps you in the habit of adapting.
Reminds me of that overwatch character with the yellow healing aura and the green speed aura. Just why?
Because his default coloring is green and yellow I’d guess
Yeah but the healing aura should be green and the speed one should be yellow
Green means go.
Yellow means “Yello? I don’t got all day!”
And yellow means, uh, holy light, or something.
I ain’t played no Overwatch, but I all but guarantee that’s what it is.Idk, he’s a Brazilian roller-blading sports-loving DJ…
I think most likely scenario is he was green and yellow based on the Brazilian flag, green means “go”, and there was only one other color left for “heal”, so it’s yellow.
Oooh i think his name is Lucio. These colours, from what i know, depend on which skin you have on
Yeah, I meant his default skin, sowwy
My world is shattered.
I think I was thinking of Mercy. But I guess her angelic yellow beam is more God’s Wrath than it is Pastor Cures Your Back Pain anyway.
In Overwatch, healing is consistently represented by the color yellow. Mercy’s beam, Ana’s darts, Moira’s piss, Soldier’s healyboo, etc. Making Lucio’s speed aura yellow and healing aura green would be visually confusing
Then the entire game is wrong.
I hate dragons. Controversial take but like just come up with some other mystical creatures! have some fun with it! if rather interact with a pink unicorn plushie than fight another dragon
Granted.
Anthrax the Destroyer is how hiding among stuffed animals.
How about Oblivion where every potion, including drugs, are red?
FWIW, potions are drugs.
except the ones made from potatoes and cheese, those are just soup
If you don’t think soup is addicting, you haven’t had soup.
It’s a potion that cures hunger.
Potion of Hospitality +3
potions of stamina are just energy drinks
Still heals HP. Definitely a health soup.
Electric element. Team Yellow vs Team Blue, FIGHT!
what do you mean? electricity is purple
There is (was?) an electric power provider in Germany by the name of Yellow. Their whole marketing was “electricity is yellow!”
Reminds me of the blue stop signs
Nethack (and derivatives) is pretty much the only game I know of where the health potions may or may not be red.
And I guess Dark Souls… It’s more of an orange than a red. But maybe that’s just the color of the flask. Idk what the substance inside looks like. 🤷🏻♂️
the flask is green! i would know since i emptied it one too many times snd the texture is dark green
Then the insides have to be red for it to appear orange through green glass. The health potion is red!
See also: video game AOE FX.
Big glowy green area? Could be a healing aura, could be poison. Good luck!
Or radiation perhaps?
Or acid!
Or radioactiv acid!
I like the fallout approach
Green glow: radiation
Brown water: radiation
Bottled Water: Good!
Not really, believe it or not, radiation. (You must be thinking of purified water)
Purple: Magic??
Green: Life/death??
Red: Life/fire??
Blue: Magic/cold??
Honestly the only colour I don’t feel uncertain about is orange, that’s always bad.
Also on the topic of health potions, a great piece of advice I once heard was that if your players are in a foreign land, remove health potions. Give them health biscuits and watch them reconcile with God.
Orange is machinery/technology
FFXIV the stack markers are close to orange… and long time ago it had Bard having a fire circle that damaged enemies but not allies, yet the tanks thought it was bad and would drag enemies out of it. Probably why they removed that one.
Nah this one is easy.
If it’s green and sparkly, it’s a good thing. If it’s green and bubbly, it’s a bad thing.
Given what Mountain Dew has done to me, that tracks.
Green w/ sparkly bubbles = Happy Drunk
Why should your fantasy game be limited by something like “health”. Whether you die should be based on vibes.
My vibe is slightly hurt with a hint of mental damage
DM: Roll a Vibe Check
Player: I rolled Dark Green
DM: Ooohhh…
Why should your fantasy game be limited by something like “health”.
One way of escalating drama and tension is by injuring a main character. The scene in Terminator 2, where Sarah Connor has to knock the T-1000 into the blast furnace with consecutive shotgun blasts, isn’t nearly as cool without her doing it with a wound in her arm. Frodo collapsing from exhaustion gives us the incredible moment of Samwise shouldering him and carrying the guy, ring and all, up the slope of Mt. Doom. Tinkerbell fading away after hearing “I don’t believe in fairies” is what gets the audience on their feet applauding her by the end of the third act.
And particularly for folks invested in the coolness of their characters, some conflicts are much more fun when the outcome isn’t anything either storyteller or player could have anticipated. A totally unexpected David v Goliath moment, where a scrawny guy fells a giant with a lucky shot, will be the kind of story people talk about for years - whether David or Goliath or both are PCs.
Similarly to how paprika chips come in blue bags and salted chips come in red bags. Anything else is heresy. Unless you live right across the border, where it’s exactly the opposite.
Looking at you, “Dragon Age” Veilguard.
Why not both?
My health potions are red, also, pulp free is not an option. >:)
The pulp is from fruit, right? The pulp is from fruit, right!?
… yestm
I used yellow for health to avoid red/green colourblind issues
I love the possibility of having a red/green colorblind character and having to roll to hopefully pick the right potion when they both health potion and poison in their bag.
But poison is purple. It’s acid they’d get it mixed up with.
I feel like any decent adventurer would develop a system. I hear blind people will fold their paper money a certain way so they can differentiate between the different values…
Most countries have varying sizes and tactile features to distinguish denominations.
Sure but it falls apart when an asshole gives them a dollar change instead of a 20 and they fold it as a 20. Any system relies on having trust that the system was done correctly as you can’t verify.
I’m not sure if that’s a joke? If you have red/green colorblindness, you wouldn’t be able to distinguish yellow either. You’d just see blue and not blue.
https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/
You can use this to come up with a palette, mine was safe
But you could have just used a shade of red that looks the same. It would be just as safe, and have red health potions.
